[krisoft]

> Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training?

Certainly possible. You are probably not going to work on the core control, planning or perception algorithms, but many of these robots run linux systems. Managing them, especially at scale, requires a lot of linux know-how. (Both on the robot and off the robot too! Data pipelines, CI/CD, MLOps, etc. All required for the project to sail smoothly.)

I’m working at a self driving car company. As a first approximation self-driving cars are robots on four wheels. As a secondary approximation they are weird data centers with sporadic network connections. Initially we needed a lot of robotics expertise to make the product do the basic things, but as things mature we also needed a lot of linux expertise to scale and get us to a smoothly running machine.

I assume you are not in the UK , so probably not of direct interest to you but here is one of our job adverts which is tailormade for someone with the right kind of linux expertise: https://apply.workable.com/oxa/j/EB627E54F2/